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Disaster Books
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.26 — 562,515 ratings — published 1997
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 71,765 ratings — published 1999
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.37 — 63,726 ratings — published 2019
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 25,157 ratings — published 1968
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,520 ratings — published 1955
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 160,285 ratings — published 2015
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,028 ratings — published 2000
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.12 — 118,667 ratings — published 1997
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,553 ratings — published 2013
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,036 ratings — published 2004
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,761 ratings — published 2003
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 81,631 ratings — published 1974
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,015 ratings — published 2009
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.07 — 61,336 ratings — published 2005
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,443 ratings — published 2008
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,400 ratings — published 2004
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,652 ratings — published 2006
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 133,119 ratings — published 2006
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,709 ratings — published 2003
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,102 ratings — published 2003
Eruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.75 — 64,726 ratings — published 2024
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,804 ratings — published 2000
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 64,245 ratings — published 1997
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,814 ratings — published 1997
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,237 ratings — published 2005
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 322,197 ratings — published 2009
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,778 ratings — published 2003
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,328 ratings — published 2008
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.25 — 37,489 ratings — published 2009
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,560 ratings — published 2011
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.46 — 162,028 ratings — published 1959
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,328 ratings — published 2007
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,028 ratings — published 1990
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 200,848 ratings — published 2023
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,032 ratings — published 2017
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.07 — 605,883 ratings — published 2014
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,749 ratings — published 2018
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,190 ratings — published 2005
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,183,227 ratings — published 1996
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,554 ratings — published 2005
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,889 ratings — published 2016
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,219 ratings — published 2009
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.24 — 837 ratings — published 2003
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,418 ratings — published 2015
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,040 ratings — published 2013
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,155 ratings — published 2006
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,947 ratings — published 2006
Drowning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 56,653 ratings — published 2023
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,879 ratings — published 2009
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 34,763 ratings — published 2010
“And she thought then how strange it was that disaster—the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face—could be at times, such a thing of beauty.”
― The Pilot's Wife
― The Pilot's Wife
“Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
